The flood risk analysis was divided into eight 'work packages' on which UK and Chinese experts worked collaboratively. This was facilitated by exchange visits to leading UK institutions involved in the UK Foresight Future Flooding Project

Professor Colin Thorne of the University of Nottingham and Dr Jonathan Simm of HR Wallingford worked with Prof Yicheng Wang, Dr Song Han and colleagues from the IWHR, Beijing to develop a Quantitative Analysis of Flood Risk Drivers and Responses.

Dr Richard Jones at the Hadley Centre UK worked with Dr Xu Yinlong, Dr Pan Jie and colleagues from the Climate Change Laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) to explore Climate Change Scenarios for the Taihu Basin.

Nick Reynard from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) worked with Dr Xu Zongxue and colleagues at the Institute of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University to establish rainfall and hydrological boundary conditions for the quantified risk analysis.

Professor Andrew Watkinson of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (www.tyndall.ac.uk/) and the University of East Anglia worked with Dr Jiang Jinhe and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) to develop Socio-economic Scenarios for the study area.

A system for the assessment of the socio-economic impacts of flooding in the Taihu Basin was developed by Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell from the Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University and Dr Wang Yanyan of the IWHR, Beijing

Dr Jon Wicks of Halcrow Group worked together with Changwei Hu and colleagues from the IWHR and the Taihu Basin Authority, Beijing to provide flood depth data for the study area through broad-scale hydraulic modelling.

Paul Sayers and Jonathan Simm of HR Wallingford worked with Prof Dongya Sun and other colleagues from the IWHR, Beijing to develop an analysis of baseline and future reliability of dikes and associated flooding in the Taihu Basin.

Professor Jim Hall from the University of Newcastle worked with Dr Chaoqing Yu and other colleagues from the IWHR, Beijing to bring together work from the preceding work packages and create a new tool to calculate present risks and change in future risk under various scenarios.

The work packages and their relationships are illustrated in the following figure: